Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries
Mohnen, Pierre, Mairesse, Jacques and Dagenais, Marcel J. (2006). Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries. UNU-MERIT.
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Sub-type Working paper Author Mohnen, Pierre
Mairesse, Jacques
Dagenais, Marcel J.Title Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries Publication Date 2006 Place of Publication Maastricht, NL Publisher UNU-MERIT Pages 62 Abstract This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a generalized Tobit model and measuring innovation as the share of total sales due to improved or new products, it compares the propensity to innovate, and the innovation intensity conditional and unconditional on being innovative, across the seven countries and low- and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Even with relatively few explanatory variables our innovation framework already accounts for sizeable differences in country innovation intensity. It also shows that differences in innovativity across countries can be nonetheless very large. Keyword Innovation
R&D
Comparison
Self-selection
EuropeJEL C35
L60
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033Copyright Holder UNU-MERIT Copyright Year 2006 Copyright type All rights reserved ISSN 18719872 -
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